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The Wiert Corner
– I think it was Stefan Glienke who pointed me at the Memoisation pattern: [WayBack] Implementing Memoize in Delphi 2009 – Community Blogs – Embarcadero Community Or in laymans terms: caching with generic functions and dictionaries. Note the Archive.is link is way better readable than the ...

Marco's Tech Blog
– In Embarcadero, for the RAD Studio project, we have two JIRA systems. One is a public system better known as Quality Portal (https://quality.embarcadero.com), while the second is an internal JIRA system accessible only behind the firewall. The two systems are kept in sync, as I explained in the ...

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– Every product team knows that it can be an uphill struggle to scale their product to where it needs to be, and that hiring a dedicated tester may not be top priority in the early days of a business. The information you get from good testing should be though – because a poor quality product ...

The Wiert Corner
– [WayBack] Use operator overloading for classes with non-ARC compiler · GitHub The trick: do not use class operator but use class function &&op_ with the special operator name in the table referenced below. Just follow the bulleted example links to get an idea. Bonus: it works on class helper ...

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– Julia Atlygina and developer Alexander Ivkin came by our TestRail stand at the Atlasssian Conference. Imagine our surprise when we learned they had created a mobile application that enables users to view, execute and get reports on their tests from a linked TestRail instance! As you’ll know ...

The Wiert Corner
– Thanks Uwe for the below code! I was in a situation of a batch file running from a Task Scheduler that got broken because the user suddenly turned on persistent network connections. So I needed to check if a shared drive-letter was indeed persistent or not and act accordingly. The below code helped ...

The Wiert Corner
– A post of some older Delphi stuff I did in the past just in case need it again. David Heffernan found the documentation for this: [WayBack] Structured Types (Delphi): Dynamic Arrays – RAD Studio Since I needed a dynamic array structure supporting a non-zero lower bound, I was glad he also ...

Marco's Tech Blog
– Embarcadero Academy is an independent online training site available at https://www.embarcaderoacademy.com/. The site has an overall agreement with Embarcadero as a key destination for online training for the company development tools products. The academy site co-hosted the CodeRage XII ...

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– Python offers several robust testing libraries, from unit testing and mocking for integration tests to security, load, and UI testing. We have reviewed several libraries and have chosen to share these for their ease of implementation, ease of use, and community contribution/active maintenance over ...

Marco's Tech Blog
– Recently, I wrote some new demo for Delphi PPL (Parallel Programming Library), while doing some research for an online class -- which is available since last week on the Embarcadero Academy site ("Anonymous Methods in Delphi"), along with a new overall bundle of my classes ("Master Modern Delphi ...

The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive: [WayBack] How to hide a property in object inspector? i have my custom components … [WayBack] delphi – Custom component and tab order – Stack Overflow Some quotes Jeroen Wiert Pluimers You cannot undo things that are inherited. What you can do is not make ...

The Wiert Corner
– This is why you should always test your Delphi apps with FastMM4 and FullDebugMode enabled: [WayBack] Delphi – Recompiling application with 10.2.1 causes memory leaks? A workaround is to add the below code in either of these places: end of your .dpr file right before the end. in the ...

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– I learned to build a UI automation suite through a lot of trial and error. This article would be the guide of how to teach yourself to design a suite from the ground up: resources for learning specific skills, reasons for selecting languages (Python or Ruby are lightweight choices and easier to ...